Posts Tagged ‘Tasers’

Now, previously, I had the pure factual evidence that the vast majority of even barely legitimate cases of police officer “executions” had occurred in cities DOMINATED BY LIBERALS. Which is to say that in case after case of police “death squads” – as the left wants to frame them – it was LIBERAL police officers following LIBERAL guidelines in LIBERAL cities with LIBERAL police bureaucracies commanded by LIBERAL city officials who ran the whole “death squad” from start to finish.

Virtually every mass gun shooting has occurred in a Democrat GUN-FREE ZONE where the murderers know their victims will be sheep-like and utterly defenseless. And the same phenomenon is equally true of cities with the strictest gun laws where every gun-wielding criminal has that confidence that his victim almost certainly will not have a gun because Democrats took guns away from every law-abiding citizen leaving only those who don’t follow laws to have firearms.

So when Democrats are in power, law-abiding citizens can only cower in their homes and hope the police show up. But the police are just as scared because they now have the assurance that they will be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law if they dare to do their jobs.

I want you to note that that article was PROPHETIC because it was written LAST YEAR, ONE YEAR AGO. And look at what’s happened to our streets as a result of these morally depraved Democrat policies that have declared war on law enforcement as liberals in crisis after crisis sided with their core special interest groups over the police. And we live in an age of coward Democrat to the degree that Democrats CAN NOT SAY that “All Lives Matter.” They HAVE to ONLY say “Black Lives Matter.”

But the problem is that if “all lives don’t matter,” “Black Lives” aren’t worth roach poop, either. So pop your popcorn and watch the killings explode BECAUSE of the Democrat Party and their leftist political thug organizations like Black Lives Matter.

A couple of snippets from that above article:

Some see the current mood of hardened positions and distrust as reminiscent of a dark era of crime 20-30 years ago in cities like New York, when police barricaded themselves in squad cars or stations out of concern for their own safety. The neighborhoods, meanwhile, crumbled.

Without a shift in the national dialogue, the NYPD, as well as other departments across the U.S., may back away from the current approach of policing with a focus on keeping communities safe and free of even petty infractions, which many believe serves as the key to ending widespread crime.

The subsequent backlash, particularly those from within minority communities who feel police departments don’t represent their interests, has forced some officers within the NYPD to reconsider whether such risks are worth it.“Without the support of the community, the average police officer is not going to go out of his way,” says Pete Segreti, a former NYPD officer who retired last year after 28 years, serving in a variety of assignments from beat patrols up to the Joint Terrorism Task Force. “He’s going to have a hands-off style of policing. He’s not going to go and be a proactive officer, which is what these communities need.”

The tense of fear created by the recent Brooklyn shooting is compounded by concerns that proactive attitudes could lead to a grand jury and subsequent accusations. There’s also a belief among some in the police community that politicians no longer stand with them in unison, an issue that flared recently with charges from police unions and leaders such as former Commissioner Ray Kelly that New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio actively campaigned for election on a so-called anti-police platform.“The backlash is going to be where officers are just going to drive around in the car, and when the radio tells you to go somewhere, that’s where they’re going to go,” Segreti says, offering an old cop joke: “‘Blue Flower Pots.’ They stand on a corner, they were out there, basically, and they just stood there. They’d take a report, and that was it.”

The US News & World Report article ends with this sober indictment of the Democrat Party demagogue machine and the Obama administration:

“They use force. That is the core function of the police. That’s why police get called, is to deal with something that isn’t supposed to be happening, and police can take care of the situation because they can tell someone what to do, or use force on them,” he says. “That is inherently controversial and problematic.”

“Given the nature of police [officers’] occupation, it’s just very difficult to do on a sustained basis.”

This harsh truth has been exacerbated by the mandate passed down from the federal government to city police forces to help protect America against further terrorist attacks. Police funding has now been dedicated to militarizing the force, and prioritizing quick-response training, causing fear among communities – like Ferguson – who don’t feel they understand who police officers are truly targeting.

The Brown and Garner deaths, compounded by the shooting in Brooklyn, has created a “one-two punch” that will damage police officers’ faith in the merits of engaging the community, he says.

And it could create permanent damage.

“When you get a general sense in the community that nobody cares,” warns Gosselin, “watch out. Because that’s when the real serious crimes are about to occur.”

Because of Democrat Party demagoguery, police are the ones who are scared and the criminals are the ones who feel emboldened and safe.

All that said and all that being completely true, it turns out that there is another, more direct connection between liberal Democrats and the outrageous shooting of Laquan McDonald.

I just came across something that amounts to direct evidence of the left being to blame in this egregious case of Laquan McDonald. I came across an article from the Los Angeles Times that I shall reprint in its entirety to showcase one question that I want you to ask yourself as you look it over: why didn’t the Chicago police officers have Tasers?

“Can someone get us a Taser? We’re at 40th and Keeler. This guy, ah, kind of walking away, he has a knife in his hand.”

Four minutes later, 17-year-old Laquan McDonald lay dying two blocks away, shot 16 times by an officer as the teenager held a knife and walked down the middle of the road.

Until this week, the public had seen only a silent video of Officer Jason Van Dyke shooting McDonald. On Wednesday, the city provided some of the sounds from that night, releasing redacted radio traffic between a dispatcher and officers at the scene.

Two officers had been trailing McDonald for nearly half a mile, from a trucking yard where he was allegedly breaking into vehicles and then through a Burger King parking lot. Officers called for a Taser as McDonald headed east on Pulaski Road.

“Anybody have a Taser?” the dispatcher called out. “Looking for a Taser; armed offender.”

A minute and a half passes as the officers follow McDonald. “Walking towards Pulaski from Keeler, eastbound on 40th Street. Again, armed with knife,” an officer says.

A minute later, the dispatcher repeats the call for a Taser. “Anybody close yet?” she asks. “Asking for a Taser for armed offender with a knife.”

Within seconds, an officer radios: “Popped our tire on our car, squad.” Police have said McDonald used his knife to slash the front tire of a squad car trying to block his path.

What follows is about a minute of other squad cars radioing that they are on their way to the scene. “Let me know when he’s in custody, guys,” the dispatcher says.

Eight seconds later, an officer yells out over his radio, “Shots fired by the police! It’s shots fired by the police, squad. Get the ambulance over here.”

The teen was alive when paramedics arrived but died on the way to the hospital, authorities have said.

According to the video, Van Dyke and his partner arrived 10 minutes after the first call. Their weapons were drawn as they stepped from their Chevrolet Tahoe. Within six seconds of exiting the police car, Van Dyke opened fire. Fifteen seconds later, he had emptied his 16-round handgun, authorities said. His partner asked him to hold his fire as Van Dyke reloaded, authorities said.

Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder last month hours before the city finally released the video.

The city also released a copy of a 911 call earlier that night reporting that McDonald was stealing radios from trucks in a parking lot.

“Hi, I need a cop over here on 41st and Kildare,” the caller says. “I have a parking lot full of trucks, and I have a guy right here who stole the radios.”

“Are you holding this person?” a dispatcher asks.

“Yeah, he’s here,” the caller says.

After asking for directions, the dispatcher says, “OK, we’ll send the police. We will send the police.”

McDonald fled the parking lot, and responding officers saw him walking with a knife, according to police.

In releasing the audio files, the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications said it had redacted “private” portions of the radio traffic. That could include names, telephone numbers, home addresses and license plate numbers, the agency explained.

Crepeau and Wong are reporters for the Chicago Tribune.

In the famous words of Porky Pig, “That’s all, folks.” That’s the whole article.

I just want you to understand how I read: I see a title that says police were seeking a Taser. I read the story about the police dispatch looking all over the city for a damn Taser. I read the criminal suspect is gunned down while they are still frantically looking for a Taser. But the reporters who wrote the article inexplicably never bother to mention just why it is that the Chicago Police Department did not have Tasers for their officers who would otherwise be forced to use deadly force.

Outcry over whether police are using Taser stun-guns appropriately — or whether they ought to use them at all — continues to fuel calls for greater police transparency and accountability.

Local activists are calling on the police to make changes to internal rules that govern how and when Tasers may be used. They also question the recent Allegheny County medical examiner’s report that found no involvement of Tasers in the death of Andre Thomas. The Swissvale resident was hit with the Taser’s immobilizing electrical current three times during an encounter with borough police on Aug. 5. On Sept. 24, his cause of death was determined to relate only to cocaine intoxication. […]

The leftist perspective money-quote is near the end of the story:

“The most serious problem with Tasers,” Meieran concludes, “is that they are being used for pain compliance, which is nothing but a euphemism for torture.”

“The Chicago Police Department is dramatically expanding its use of Tasers, adding several hundred more and putting them in the hands of patrol officers for the first time, officials said Wednesday.

“The ‘stun guns’ will go in every squad car to give front-line beat officers a more effective way to protect themselves and calm a disturbance.

“But the electrical devices have caused controversy nationwide, with debates about their safety and lawsuits filed on behalf of dozens of people, some in the Chicago area, who have died after being ‘Tased.’

“Chicago police laid out their plans just hours after a 31-year-old south suburban man was pronounced dead after Midlothian police used a Taser to subdue him. Jaesun Ingles, of Riverdale, who was on parole, was stunned with the Taser after he tried to swallow a plastic bag that police believed contained drugs, resisted arrest and ran from officers, Midlothian police said. An autopsy by the Cook County medical examiner’s office Wednesday was inconclusive, pending further investigation.”

So just what the hell happened to all of those Tasers??? Why didn’t the police have any when they clearly needed them to avoid the very shooting that happened that the left is so batpoop about???

So I’m simply going to go ahead and call out what appears to be the rather obvious truth: the Chicago Police Department officer shot that suspect – who was CLEARLY a criminal and had already USED his knife in a violent way against police cruisers – because the left had previously removed their ability to respond with non-lethal force.

And I have a feeling that the officer who finally emptied his magazine into Laquan McDonald was watching this thug-punk walking freely down the street with cops POWERLESS to respond to him due to the “mystery of lawlessness” being unleashed by Democrats and something snapped and he said, “F#%@ this, I’ve had enough.”

And now we’re seeing the consequences.

Or let me put it another way from the left: “We’re going to take away you evil cops ability to use anything other than lethal force against hard-core criminals; THEN we’re going to demonize you for using the lethal force we left you with no choice but to use.

I would love to be allowed to perform the following experiment with a liberal. For the record, I am a big, tall, powerful weightlifter (like many “superfelon” perps from prison weight training as we’ve long known). Here’s the experiment: I get to come at you with a knife and the complete freedom to use it to KILL you. You have your liberal PC words and your gun. You frankly shouldn’t be allowed to have a gun, really, given your attitude toward guns, but you get one armed with blanks. And ALL you have to do for me to stop my act of stabbing and slashing you to death is to draw that weapon, aim it at me, and start pulling the trigger. Because otherwise the exercise is for keeps and I’m going to do a “snow-angel” in your blood and entrails right next to your hacked-to-death corpse.

Mind you, you COULD have possibly had an alternative to using that gun on me, BUT YOUR FELLOW DAMN LIBERALS TOOK IT AWAY FROM YOU.

Now, I’m going to bet that the vast majority of you liberals, as stupid and as foolish as you are, would draw that weapon and point it at me and start pulling the trigger to save your lives.

Too bad you vile roaches won’t let police do the same thing.

I have to mock the left again as a liberal online outfit runs an article titled, “This Is How UK Police Stop Someone With A Knife.” The United Kingdom’s secret is to use TASERS. You know, the kind that the very same anti-gun left won’t let OUR police use. While they scream at them for every single shooting.

And so the American political left literally is cynically and wickedly creating more police shootings so they can demagogue them, just as Obama is allowing terrorist attacks in the United States so he can demagogue guns and the good American people who own them.

There are more than 900,000 sworn police officers in the U.S. They do an incredibly dangerous job and are forced to enter tense and frantic situations where people – who may or may not be armed with deadly weapons – are acting at their very worst. They are forced to make snap decisions which could end with one of them dead or an innocent dead as well as a criminal dead. With that many police officers in the MILLIONS of situations they face, there will ALWAYS be some situation where the left can demonize a police officer somewhere for possibly doing something wrong in that split second that he has to react in the very worst situations any imperfect human being can face.

And like roaches, Democrat activists are swarming all over every single one of them.

And like a terrorist attack where the terrorists only have to succeed once to make a giant impact, it only takes ONE situation with ONE cop for Democrat activists to demonize and delegitimize the ENTIRETY of law enforcement.

On its face, it is seemingly bizarre that Democrats would attack the police who represent government law and order. But here’s the thing: the police don’t represent “government” at a high enough level for Democrats. Democrats hate our Constitution, hate the states that are the basis for our constitutional representative republic, and therefore hate the fact that states, counties and cities have any right whatsoever to be allowed to do ANYTHING they don’t like. What they want is an Obama police force that an Obama can exploit to his political ideology; they want a “People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs” like the Soviet Union had. And they won’t stop for anything less.

What we are watching here is nothing short of last-days “mystery of lawlessness” overtaking the United States of America and being used as a political war tactic against the American people. We now have a Democrat Party that has officially turned against police and sided with the most lawless members of society in order to gin up the hate and fear of their political base so they will vote. We now have a President who is openly exploiting every terrorist attack in the United States – which are all actually examples of his failure to keep us safe and protect us – as a political weapon against the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution and the American people who rely on our Constitution to be safe from crime and from the tyrants who right now inhabit our government.